Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] to [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The General Next to God , Collins ) Many of his far-reaching proposals only came to fruition during the social reforms after the Second World War . |
| 2 | This new evidence was held by the defence and only came to light during the trial . |
| 3 | This soon led to criticism of the excessive power of the Chancellor : ‘ The Chancellor 's position has become so strong that his opponents and supporters alike complain about his authoritarian style of leadership [ writing about Adenauer ] … |
| 4 | Abraham finally went to sleep on the waggon . |
| 5 | And my father I think just went to school in the Wintertime . |
| 6 | In 1982 the enfeebled Leonid Brezhnev still clung to power in the Kremlin , detente was dead , the end of the cold war nowhere in sight . |
| 7 | Nor would it have been possible to ask , nor even to rely on any information which might have been forthcoming , since Amabel , who always retired to bed for the duration of her own " monthly curse " had said nothing more to the point than , " Darling , I must beg of you never to speak of this to anyone , when Gemma at the age of fourteen had first seen evidence of hers . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , Randall left ambiguous the respective roles of Wilkins and Franklin , and this later led to dissension about the demarcation of the DNA research at King 's , but a letter of his to Franklin in 1950 makes it clear that on ‘ the experimental X-ray effort there would be for the moment only yourself and Gosling ’ . |
| 9 | This helped promote political stability , but also led to friction within the government and with its supporters , disappointed in their expectation of a major improvement in living conditions . |
| 10 | BURMAH , the oil group which nearly came to grief in the 1970s stock market crash , was one of the few shares to resist Barclays de Zoete Wedd 's gloomy forecast on shares . |
| 11 | AN ATTEMPT to inflate the historical nugget of Shane into one vast indictment of America , this symptomatic disaster also served to gun down the Western for ten years . |
| 12 | Dooley 's personal tragedy was so awful — he was so young and talented and he took the blow with such heroic , idiotic stoicism ( ‘ It 's my one regret that the ball did n't finish in the net ’ ) — that a substantial sum was raised for him and he later went to work for the club . |
| 13 | He talked to Modigliani , for example , of Bergson , the Jewish philosopher who nearly converted to Catholicism at the end of his life ; and through Bergson , of the concept of conscience and the relationship between morality and religion . |
| 14 | Dicey 's concerns in 1914 also extended to apprehension about the principle of the rule of law : |
| 15 | The science of physics really came to birth during the nineteenth century , though the process of convergence of separate physical sciences had perhaps begun when Galileo united celestial and terrestrial dynamics . |
| 16 | They now began to side with the extreme wing of the pied noir integrationist movement , which openly called for his overthrow . |
| 17 | She lived out of doors and often went to work in the fields with the contadini . |
| 18 | When I came out on top I immediately looked to starboard for the Pole Star and was rather shocked to find that it was oil the portside and we were obviously heading east , but by careful use of the engines was able to turn through 180° and the navigator gave me a heading after taking a sight from the astro compass . |
| 19 | This almost led to grounding of the plane but replacement with an incompatible elastomer made from ethylene-propylene copolymer rectified the fault . |
| 20 | Described as ‘ cold , haughty , melancholy and dull ’ , he at least came to life in the splendour of his books , some eight hundred of which are in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris . |
| 21 | She then returned to back into the siding and collected her own carriages , shunting them back into Holyhead Station ! |
| 22 | She had originally run it with first husband Stephen and then went to work at the Midland pub opposite Central station . |
| 23 | She had originally run it with first husband Stephen and then went to work at the Midland pub opposite Central station . |
| 24 | It used every means at its disposal : it argued and pressured the Versailles politicians ; it cheated in the plebiscites ; it engineered uprisings in Silesia and Wielkopolska ; it skirmished and then went to war with the Red Army for territory in the east . |
| 25 | The moneylenders then looked to Sim for the cash and threatened him and his family . |
| 26 | Oxford 's Elizabethan and Stuart fishermen were not poor but they never rose to prominence in the city , despite being well-connected on occasion . |
| 27 | He never came to trial for the robbery at the Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society in Quedgeley , Gloucester . |
| 28 | David ‘ Syd ’ Lawrence , who recently returned to bowling in the nets after his horrific knee injury in New Zealand , has been awarded a benefit by Gloucestershire in 1993 . |
| 29 | I recently returned to Bali for the first time since my Los Angeles house burned down . |